OUTLINE OF SPEECH AT THE TENTH ALL-RUSSIA CONGRESS OF SOVIETS[1]

Written:Written in the first half of December 1922Published:First published on September 27, 1925 inPravdaNo. 221.

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1.Fifthanniversary (Vladivostok).

2.Civilwarunitedworking class and peasantry, and
this is aguarantee of invincible strength.

3.Civilwar trained and tempered (Denikin and others
were goodteachers; taught seriously; all ourbest Party
workers were in the army).

3bis:...3bis:Diplomacy(N.B.). Apparatus iseasier to build.

]

4.Wehave overcome last year’s famine too.

5.Nowconcentrateoneconomics: how (N.B.) toapproachsocialism?

6.Nototherwise than throughNEP.

7.Ayear’s testing?

8.Finances.A small stepforward.

9.Kritsman, 1920—16%, 21—50%,
22—60%.[2]

10.Growthof trade, bothinternal

11.— —andexternal.

12. —Mixedcompanies:learning.

13.Industry:light industry hasimproved,

14.— — —heavydifficult, but not hopeless: there is
a small step forward.

15.CentralCouncil of Co-operative Societies: its special
significance.

16.Thestate apparatus in general:bad beyond
description;lower than the bourgeois level of culture.

(“frightened”in November 1917); it is a question of
culturein general, and itwill take years to raise it.

17.Hundredsof thousands of employees in the stateapparatus.Increase.

N.B.

18. Census of 1922 (Oct.–Nov.).

19.Itsresults.

20.Articleby
Kin.[3]

21.Notalterations, butredistributionandreduction.

22.Ajob for manyyears: (we are alone, it is we who are
carrying, and we should bethe ones who are being carried).

23.Morerapidly (1917–22)more slowly(1922–27?) (“watchword”).

24.Patronageof town Party cells over village cells andvice versa.

Often: this apparatus does not belong to us, we belong
to it!

Supplyof raw materials and other things for thenext
year!N.B.(danger).

[1]Leninwrote the outline of his proposed speech at the Tenth
All-Russia Congress of Soviets in the first half of December 1922.
On the matter of the speech Lenin wrote to J. V. Stalin for
members of the Central Committee on December 15 (see present edition,
Vol. 33, p. 460). But because of his poor health, Lenin was unable
to speak at the Congress.

[2]Thedata given by Lenin are a reflection of the lag of prices behind
the money circulation between June and November 1920 (by
16 per cent), 1921 (50 per cent) and 1922 (60 per cent). This
was evidence of the stabilisation of the ruble and apparently
served to confirm Point 8 of the outline “Finance. Small Step
Forward ”.

Leninmust have taken the data from L. N. Kritsman’s
introduction to a collection entitled,Along New Paths. The Results
of the New Economic Policy for 1921 and 1922(Issue II,Finance.
Works Edited by a Commission of the Council of Labour and
Defence, Moscow, C.L.D. Publication, 1923). On December 10, 1922,
during his preparations for the speech, Lenin asked for the proofs
of the collection.

[3]Apossible reference to the article by F. Kin, “Specialists (A
Statistical Survey)”, published inPravdaNo. 197 on September 3,
1922. On the strength of a poll of 230 engineers working in Soviet
administrative bodies and trusts the author drew the conclusion
that there were two kinds of specialists: those hostile to the Soviet
power, and others who were steadily being drawn into co-operation
with it. The author maintained that one of the tasks of the Soviet
power was to promote this differentiation of bourgeois specialists
in every way.